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Tapping the planet’s heart beat: Dorrance Dance and The Blues Project

By Jaime Robles, 18 March 2017
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“this brilliant company affirmed ... in the rhythmic exchanges of their bodies that together is best”
Reviewed at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater, San Francisco on 16 March 2017
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Dorrance Dance
The Blues Project
Derick Grant, Choreography
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Jaime Robles
Jaime Robles
Jaime Robles has previously written in the San Francisco Bay Area, including for the San Francisco Classical Voice. Also a poet, she has written song lyrics and librettos for several one-act operas, including Inferno (music by Peter Josheff), staged in 2009 by San Francisco Cabaret Opera, and Vladimir in Butterfly Country (music by Anne Callaway), staged in 2012.